bote@uunet.uu.net (John Boteler) (06/26/89)
(in reference to) Subject: Re: 1+302 on calls from Pa. to Del. >From article <telecom-v09i0201m04@vector.dallas.tx.us>, by cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB): > I talked to my local business office today and hear that 1+302 > is now required on local calls from Pennsylvania to Delaware Check that... The Washington DC metro calling area has been put on warning that 10 digits (NOT 11) shall be mandatory in the near future for calling across the LATA. The differentiation between long distance calls and local calls across the LATA will be the leading '1', as always. Are you sure your business office included the leading '1' when they told you to dial the area code? Or is DC going to remain the odd-man-out in the dialing standards arena? Bote uunet!cyclops!csense!bote {mimsy,sundc}!{prometheus,hqda-ai}!media!cyclops!csense!bote [Moderator's Note: In Thursday's Digest: An article which first appeared in {Computer Risks} transcribing a conversation between fire and police dispatchers in the UK at the time of the soccer incident a few months ago. Also, a schedule of seminars, "Understanding ISDN" taking place throughout the United States during July and August. PT]
cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (06/30/89)
That's a good question regarding 1+ being included on local calls from Pa. to Del. I could go to Kemblesville, Pa. and try a local call to Newark, Del. I don't have the wording available for such new dialing instruction. I did notice that years ago, I could leave the 1+ off calls made from pay phones on 302-475 and 302-478, which are local to Pa. points, and 302-674 about halfway downstate in Delaware. As for your comment about DC area: What does this mean concerning area code 202? Is it being withdrawn from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs? Apparently you mean that local calls across the area code boundaries (i.e., from Md. to DC & Va., from Va. to DC and Md., and from DC to Md. and Va.) will require the area code. If 1+ is NOT to be used for such calls, it means that: 202 and 703 can NOT be used as prefixes in Md. suburbs 202 and 301 can NOT be used as prefixes in Va. suburbs 301 and 703 can NOT be used as prefixes in DC (local calls within Md. suburbs, within Va. suburbs, and within DC to remain 7 digits) It is apparently the practice anyway that nearby area codes are not to be used as prefixes. At this time (i.e. WITHOUT this revision), prefixes 261 and 621 in Md. suburbs dial 569-xxxx to make a local call to that prefix in Springfield, Va., and 1-301-569-xxxx to make a local call to that prefix in Severn, Md. In NYC, if you are calling within the local message-unit area, you have to dial 1+516 or 1+914 as the case may be on calls to suburban points. (At least the phone book says to do that.) And I believe local calls from areas 213, 818, and 415 in California to neighboring area codes are 11 digits.